The national electricity grid has reached 100% of communes and over 98% of rural households have electricity reached their homes. Thanks to the efforts of all the electricity industry’s staff in Dong Nai province over the past ten years, electricity has been brought to most people in the province.
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The company’s unveiling signboard ceremony to welcome a new construction in its emulation movement
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Founded on June 3, 1999, Dong Nai Power Company was transformed into Dong Nai Power One-member Limited Company according to the Prime Minister’s decision on Octorber 10, 2006. Over the past ten years, the company’s staff has overcome difficulties and challenges, shown solidarity in fulfilling its tasks completely and continued its constant investment in the national grid modernizing and uprading to serve people in the province better. Up to now, the company has had 2,471 staffs and a team of engineers and workers who has professional skills and is suitably trained. It is the team that is a basic element contributing to increasing the company’s labor productivity. The annual labor productivity rises by 12% to 17% on average. The production of commercial electricity has reached or exceeded the plan goals for years. In 2008, 4.8 billion kWh were generated, up nearly 400% compared to 1999. 2008 electricity sales revenue hit more than VND4.2 thousand billion, 5 times as much as in 1999. In addition, the company always reserves a backup power supply system using diesel with an available capacity of 11MVA/ year for Hoa An water plant and transmits electricity to the grid as the national grid management board’s requirements. Annually, it earns a good profit and it has contributed VND659 billion to the national budget the past 10 years.
Together with an increase in electricity output for production and home life, the company particularly focuses on cutting losses, improving power quality with a new investment in and a repair to the electricity grid, ensuring an optimum operation (power load: 70%) for the 110 kV grid and the medium-voltage grid, upgrading the grid from 15kV to 22kV, enhancing the inspection, replacement and maintenance for electricity meters, TU, TI and so on. This results in a decline in the rate of power loss every year. In 2008, the rate of power loss dropped by 2.7% compared to 1999.
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The electricity grid is regularly checked and maintained
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The top priority of businesses is to expand their types of customers. Being fully aware of this, the company has taken a close interest in its service quality and customer care and has met its customers’ electricity demand quickly such as handling power failures timely, launching the model of electricity retail service in rural areas, equipping 100% of its electric meter reader employees with handheld electricity meter readers, which help serve their job, managing its customers with the computer software (CMIS) and introducing the regulations on the full installation package of electricity meters ... After 10 years of development, the company has attracted more than 434,000 customers.
One of the company’s important achievements is that it has developed rural electricity networks. To follow the guidelines of the provincial Party Committee and People's Council, the company has attempted to collaborate with local committees and sectors in investing in constructing the medium-voltage and low-voltage grid to sell electricity directly to each household in rural areas. So far, results show that new low-voltage grids in 100% of communes have been invested in. The number of rural households having electricity reached their homes is 97.25% (exceeding the plan goals established in the province’s resolution). These achievements come from its constant efforts and an effective cooperation between local committees and sectors in the process of implementing the rural electrification program. The achievements have created an important premise to help accelerate industrialization and modernization in the rural areas of the province. In addition, early 2008, it invested more than VND11 billion in constructing a 130.744-km low voltage grid to bring electricity to ethnic minority areas and heroic communes and contributed to socialization and returing the favor. Up to now, it has completed and put a 63.383-kilometer low voltage grid in use. The rest is expected to be finished in 2009.
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The company receives the year-2009 emulation flag for its outstanding achievements from EVN (Vietnam Electricity)
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With its achievements over the past years, Dong Nai Power Company is honored to receive one first grade Labor Medal, one second grade Medal and two third grade Medals from the State and many certificates of merit and emulation flags from the province and the provincial electricity industry.
It is known that to promote its achievements and ensure a power supply for the province’s socio-economic development, the company will strive to increase the commercial electricity production by 8% to 20%/ year from now to 2015, invest in constructing 110kV transformer stations and 22kV distribution networks, develop other services with a total investment capital of more than VND 1,000 billion, spend more than VND30 billion on yearly considerable repairs, ensure a steady power supply for local development demand, cut yearly losses by below 3.5%, accelerate the progress of the investment projects in rural electricity networks and reach the rate of rural households having electricity reached their home by over 99% by 2010 and simultaneously strengthen the movements of returning the favor and the movements of musical performance and sports in the company to improve the company staff’s material and spiritual life and contribute to fulfilling its tasks successfully.
(Reported by Thuy Lien, Translated by Duy Minh)
